Committee recommends process for claims attachment changes
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, December 19, 2005
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should provide an easier process for adding to and modifying the standards for attachment types, according the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS).
In a letter to HHS, Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH, chairman of the NCVHS, wrote that the organization supports the proposed standards for electronic transmissions that HHS recently submitted for public comment. However, Cohn recommended modifying the process for making these sorts of changes.
"[We] recommend flexibility for adopting new claims attachments transmission and messaging standards and additional types of attachments. In particular, the NCVHS recommends the development of a streamlined process for adding new standards and attachments types and for modifying existing standards," Cohn wrote. "The Committee urges the Department to investigate other ways that adoption of new versions could be accomplished without the need for the lengthy and cumbersome rulemaking process."
Click here to read the Cohn's letter.
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